Somone help, what is an SPE for a cell processor

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SportyGuy220

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Cell Processor with 7 SPEs, at 3.2 GHz is what is described on a new ps3. what the hell is an spe
 
"The Cell processor consists of a general-purpose POWERPC processor core connected to eight special-purpose DSP cores. These DSP cores, which IBM calls "synergistic processing elements" (SPE), but I'm going to call "SIMD processing elements" (SPE) because "synergy" is a dumb word, are really the heart of the entire Cell concept."

http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/cpu/cell-1.ars/1

Basically they are "helper cores" that don't really seem to be homogeneous like the Smithfield or Toledo/Manchester.
 
One standard, scalar-type PPC core + 8 vector-type cores - lots of cache memory = Cell unit :)
 
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